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NITED ra rns ARTHUR '1. OULVER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO JOSIAH J. PARKHURST, OF SAME PLACE.

HORSESHOE-BAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 321,420, dated July 7, 1885.

Application filed July 28, 1884. (No model l To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR T. CULVER, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ho rseshoe-Iron, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a face view of a portion of a bar of my improved horseshoe-iron intended for use in the manufacture of front shoes. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same on the line a: :r, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a horseshoe partly creased, as the same would appear when made from the bar shown in Fig. 1. Fig. -'t is atransverse sectional view taken on the line 2, Fig.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in the different figures. I

The object of my invention is to provide a horseshoe iron or bar which may be so pr0- portioned and shaped as that the bending and creasing thereof by the blacksmith may leave it in a finished and approved form without the further operation of hemming or forging, which has heretofore been necessary after creasing, and which adds greatly to the expense of finishing the shoe.

My invention consists in so bcveling or rounding that edge of the bar which is intended for the outer edge or surface of the shoe as to compensate for the swaging or outward pressure of the metal incident to the creasing thereof, and to leave said edge vertical, or nearly so, to the top surface of the completed shoe, instead of flaring outward, as is now the case, all of which will be hereinafter more fully described,and definitely pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 represents the side of a rolled bar of iron or steel corresponding to the bottom of a front shoe, A being the (lat surface,l3 the usual bevel upon the inside of the shoe, and C the outer edge or surface which may be either beveled or slightly rounded, as shown; but I prefer the latter, as giving a more perfect shape to the finished shoe.

Fig. 5 represents a shoe formed from a like bar to that indicated in Fi 1, having a crease, D, formed in a portion thereof, thereby swaging or pressing the metal outwardly, as shown in Fig. 6, the normal shape of said bar being indicated by the dotted lines shown in said last-named figure.

As a result of rolling the bars in the shape described, having both the outer and inner edges or surfaces beveled or rounded, the edge 0 is left in a much smoother and more perfect shape than when forged with a hammer, and a considerable portion of the labor infinishing the shoe is thereby saved.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A bar of horseshoe-iron having its outer edge or surface beveled or rounded, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A bar of horseshoeiron having its outer edge or surface beveled or rounded to a snffr cient extent to compensate for the swaging of the metal consequent upon creasing the same in the forming of horseshoes, substantially as shown and described.

As a new article of manufacture, abar of horseshoe-iron having both its outer and inner edges or surfaces beveled or rounded, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

ARTHUR- T. OULVER.

W'itnesses:

ROGER B. McllIULLnN, F. McGoiurors. 

